Earlier this month a young woman lost her 2 month old son to what will likely be ruled as SIDS. I am going to respect this mother’s privacy in this blog post. I am not going to respect the privacy of the vultures who are now exploiting this mother. This mother has been lied to and is being used and manipulated. You may sense some anger coming through my sentences. I am angry. I am trying to be understanding though as I write this.

Three things jump out at me in MAM's post,1: if herbs “are not drugs,” why sell them as medicinal substitutes and claim they work better than medicine?2: if “we do not need to stop using nutritive herbs or reserve them only for special times,” then why are any of us plagued with ailments at all?3: “Resistant.” Let me explain this one in my following rant....*Please note by “lettuce” I mean herbs and “natural” foods.

We often come across stories in anti-vaccine groups that leave us feeling suspect after reading them. We try to look into each one of these stories but we don’t always have the time. Contrary to popular belief, we are not paid shills. We aren’t even paid bloggers. None of us at What’s The Harm and NO MAM have earned a cent doing what we do on these pages and this website. Most of us have real life jobs that have no connection to our online advocacy. And by jobs this includes stay at home moms/dads since that is the hardest job of all. Almost all of us who work also have kids, and some of us even go to school. Every one of us has at least one of the three things listed above. We all have our own reasons for advocating for vaccinations, but profit is not one of those reasons. Because of this aren't always able to investigate every story or claim we read about, or confirm every Go Fund Me (GFM) campaign. The fact that we all do this for free is something that makes this blog post even more interesting. Let me explain how I learned of a couple anti-vaccine shills and a bogus GFM.

I recently came across the post featured in the image below. As I started to write a Facebook page post to go with the redacted image, I found myself creating this elaborate comparison scenario that was becoming too long for a Facebook post. This is a common problem when pointing out stupid beliefs of the anti-vaccine movement since their idiocy knows no bounds. Leave it to anti-vaxxers to cause the allotted space of a Facebook post feel as restrictive as a 140 character Tweet.

**Most will still understand much of this blog post without reading the featured image, though I do suggest reading the post in the image before reading the rest of this blog post.

Recently I have covered the anti-vaccine vitriol against those of us who advocate for vaccines, or against the Jewish community, against the medical community, and even aimed at those in government, but there is one more group of people who are more often victimized by anti-vaccine hate and discrimination than any other group of people, and that is autistic people. A post I came across from the Facebook page Future Horizons demonstrates their hate horrifically well.

Correction: The post discussed here in Kate's Facebook group by Kate was also made to her public Facebook profile.

In a recent post to her Facebook group, Modern Alternative Mamas!, Kate Tietje, the Modern Alternative Mama, called attention to a “message” she received. The quotations are added there because that is the word Kate used in her post. It wasn’t a message though, it was a public comment left on a public post that Kate posted to her public Facebook page. The comment has been there since yesterday and Kate made her group post about the comment a few hours after the comment was made. It’s likely that Kate did this due to only a few people calling attention to the comment and offering Kate their undying support. The comment in question is still up and can be found here, though I am expecting Kate to remove it sometime soon or make the post private. I’ve included the screen shot below in case that should happen. Would you call this Facebook comment typical of obsessive stalking behavior?

I am venturing into new territory with this blog post. I feel I should be upfront and honest though, I am going to be throwing shade at a mother of a sick child. More specifically, the mother of a child with cancer. I am not happy to call this woman on her nonsense, but I can’t forget there is the life of a little boy at risk by her actions, or her in actions rather. This mother is trying to deny her child life saving chemotherapy treatments in favor of dandelions and CBD oil. She has been trying to make a name for herself in the anti-vaccine/anti-medicine community, so I can’t help but suspect this defiant attitude of hers is fueled more by her agenda and less by her child.

It has been about a month since my last MAM blog post. I tried to resist the urge to blog about MAM, I really did. But, I just couldn’t keep a few claims from MAM and my observations regarding MAM quiet. I just want to grab her followers by the shirt and ask WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING LISTENING TO THIS IDIOT?! To demonstrate what I mean while also debunking MAM’s sorely lacking claims, I’ll breakdown her post from yesterday regarding Vaccine hesitancy.

I took a couple days off from social media and all things vaccines this week. Today, as I did my usual catch up on all things anti-vaccine after my brief hiatus, I noticed I missed a couple of bitch-fests from Kate Tietje on both her personal, yet public, Facebook page and from her Facebook group. Now, before you assume this is another MAM post, let me assure this is not. She reminded me of a blog post I intended to publish a couple weeks ago but completely forgot about. There will be a couple of screen shots of Kate’s posts and comments, though the dozens of other screen shots featured are from other people. This blog post focuses on the rise of coveted warfare from the anti-vaccine echo chambers. Civil war seems to be the growing theme among these most violent, gun loving, second amendment preaching, privileged American terrorists. I can’t help but to wonder, however, how many of those posting the call of war, or commenting their desire for war, are doing so from the safety of their homes, much like Kate does. How many of them have also never attended a protest, have nothing to lose since they don’t have kids in public school, or how many of them rarely leave the comfort of their homes…. just like Kate Tietje?

It looks as though Erin Elizabeth from Health Nut News is lying to us again. On a Facebook post thread found on the page Future Horizons, Erin makes several claims to be autistic, a claim I cannot find made or discussed by Erin anywhere else online or off line. With every other issue Erin has alleged to have and has blamed on vaccines, I find it highly suspect that she'd fail to mention her autism all this time, and just happen to announce her autism on an autism post from an autism page. Let’s begin with Erin’s newfound claims of autism.